A memoir of Jeffries Wyman—groundbreaking scientist, Boston Brahmin, adventurer, diplomat, artist, and eccentric—by his daughter Anne. After the death of his first wife, Wyman travelled the world, leaving his two children with relatives. But he sent them a stream of brilliant letters chronicling his travels and his friendships with everyone from Alaskan Eskimos to luminaries such as J. Robert Oppenheimer. A frank, loving portrait of a man who led an uncommonly tumultuous life.